Busy holidays

With all the fun I forgot to blog.
Actually I don't have much to say, Ford, Saddam, and James Brown died.
There's a new war between Ethiopia and Somalia.

So to tide people over until I have something worth saying, here's a detailed explaination of the game theory of leaving the toilet seat up. It describes the feminist position (ie "seat stays down") thusly:

Consequences of strategy M:
In strategy M the seat is always left down. When John performs operation #1 he lifts the seat before the operation and lowers it after the operation. The respective average cost of toilet seat transfer operations is:

John: 2pC
Marsha: 0

In these strategy Marsha bears no cost; all of the incremental costs are borne by John. John objects.

As I understand it though, the issue isn't really the work of flipping the seat.

The real issue for men is they're busy shaking, flushing, and zipping...that and we don't care. It's not like men protest when the seat is down.

The real issue for women is those who are used to the seat being down sometimes forget to look where they sit.* The risk of falling into the toilet is enough to warrant an argument even when the effort of flipping a seat is not.

So in essence, the costs are reversed. The incremental risk of falling in the can is almost uniquely borne by women (for some reason men just don't have that problem...at least not sober). True, in the absence of men, women could just leave the toilet seat down forever and never worry about it. But I'm not too sympathetic to the case that someone is too oblivious to watch where they put their ass. In fact, anyone who tells me they're likely to fall in the toilet if I leave the seat up is begging me to give it a try.

*Special disclaimer: These insights were gleaned from female college roomates and high school friends...the fiance has yet to opine on the matter. Fair warning though babe: if you do fall in, I'm gonna laugh my ass off.